Our Story

It started alone, in a dorm room. I had been building for years — apps, websites, tools — and every time I finished something, I'd push it to GitHub and it would just sit there. Static. Invisible. I'd post on LinkedIn and it would disappear in the feed within minutes. I kept thinking, there has to be a better way for builders to be seen.

The first version I ever imagined I called Ship It — like a ship, the animal. I sketched the idea out, got excited, then lost track of it. But the feeling never left.

Then I found my people. Ten hours before HackOH/IO 2025, the four of us jumped on a phone call and talked through the whole thing — what it was, what it could be, who it was for. We didn't sleep much. We didn't need to. The energy was there.

The name came up almost as a joke. Peaches. Assol loved it immediately. We all did. Something about it just fit — just like a peach, good work needs time to ripen, but when it's ready, it's impossible to ignore. So we went with it: Pchz — Peaches.

We entered HackOH/IO 2025 with that energy, that name, and something real to show. We won — Most Original and Innovative Product, backed by Ohio State University. That night changed everything for us.

We're grateful for every moment of it. We learned so much — about building under pressure, about listening to each other, about what it means to be a team. And now we want to build something bigger: a community for underserved talent. For people who have been building in silence and never got the platform they deserve.

If you have a senior project, a side project, or just an idea you believe in — this is where you bring it. Your next pitch might be your breakthrough.

We're looking forward to every opportunity ahead, and we're just getting started.